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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Snatch (2000)

British Gangster
Movie #9

Synopsis: It’s
basically Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels, with a bigger budget and some American movie stars (see VHS jacket)

Blurb From the VHS
Jacket: “When jewel thief Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) takes a
slight detour to London on route to delivering a huge stolen diamond to his
boss in New York, he unwittingly sets off an avalanche of sinister and comic
events that wind their way through the rough and tumble worlds of bare-knuckle
boxing, Irish gypsies, pawn shops pig farming and.... a stray dog.”

What Did I Learn?:
1) It takes at least 16 pigs to consume a human corpse in one sitting, so be
careful around anyone who owns a pig farm. 2) You should never underestimate
the predictability of stupidity. 3) London is known for: “fish, chips, cup 'o
tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins...”

Really?: “Turkish”....
“Bricktop”.... “Bullet-Tooth Tony”.... “Franky Four Fingers”... wow, does everyone
in this movie have some sort of cute, Dick Tracy-ish nickname?

Rating:Snatch is of course Michael Ritchie’s
follow-up film to Lock, Stock and Two
Smoking Barrels, and it even features a few actors from Lock recast in new
roles. Snatch is a fun caper-comedy, but I couldn’t help myself from thinking
it’s basically a rehash, this time on a grander scale (see: “Synopsis”). 8/10
stars.